{"id":120633,"date":"2021-11-25T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120633"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:27:06","slug":"daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-740-and-reports-another-27-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/25\/daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-740-and-reports-another-27-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of Covid-19 cases in Sri Lanka moves to 740 and reports another 27 coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that another 211 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, increasing the daily count of new cases to 740.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the new cases are returnees from overseas while the other 205 cases are associated with the New Year COvid-19 cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This increases the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country to 560,345 while presently a total of 17,713 infected patients are undergoing treatment island-wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 27 coronavirus related deaths for November 24, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus pandemic to 14,232.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths include 19 males and 08 females while seven of the victims are between the ages 30-59 years. The remaining 20 are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 211 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, increasing the daily count of new cases to 740.&nbsp; Six of the new cases are returnees from overseas while the other 205 cases are associated with the New Year COvid-19 cluster.&nbsp; This increases the total number of Covid-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}